It does look like mostly a giant pile of junk... and I agree, there is no telling how many IN-18's are left in the cartel's secret hoard. One thing is for certain: Although every other nixie tube price continues to increase, the IN-18 has stayed bizarrely stable.
-Adam On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Charles MacDonald <[email protected]>wrote: > On 13-05-11 03:24 PM, Dutchgray wrote: > >> Then if by some miracle you actually get it set up and working properly >> the Russians will undercut you forever with their vast stock of IN-18's >> as no one knows how many they have left and I bet its lots. New >> manufacture would only work with a tube that people would pay big money >> for, so a copy of something big >> > > I share the scepticism. although since there is NOT any tooling for the > digits but just "Knowledge" - perhaps one could produce tubes with better > digits, or custom digits - Chess Pieces have been mentioned. Also this > might be a leg up to starting to make new design Nixie tubes intended to > fill niches in the market. if one had the processes down for the IN18, > perhaps your engineering staff could scale up to a CD-47 size tube. > > My sceptical nature will leave me watching far away on the sidelines. > > -- > Charles MacDonald Stittsville Ontario > [email protected] Just Beyond the Fringe > http://Charles.MacDonald.org/**tubes <http://Charles.MacDonald.org/tubes> > No Microsoft Products were used in sending this e-mail. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "neonixie-l" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to > neonixie-l+unsubscribe@**googlegroups.com<neonixie-l%[email protected]> > . > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit > https://groups.google.com/**groups/opt_out<https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out> > . > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
